October 27, 2008
At the beginning of 2008 I wrote about being a member of Meetup.com. At that time I was active in the San Diego Photography Meetup Group and the Arthouse Movies Meetup Group, and had become an Assistant Organizer in both of them. I had...
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San Diego
August 27, 2008
I could use some help getting the new ShyCloud.com ready for business! I've set up a new blog where I am going to rebuild ShyCloud.com from the ground up, starting with templates provided by Movable Type. I will slowly move stuff from our old...
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Blogging
August 25, 2008
I spent most of today preparing to upgrade ShyCloud.com from Movable Type 2.661 to Movable Type 4.21, and then performing the actual upgrade. This is the first message I am posting using the new system. I'm not sure how quickly you, the reader, will...
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Blogging
May 5, 2008
I've found another site that is proving useful. It's called LinkedIn.com and it offers a profile that is mostly just your professional resume. That allows you to connect with your friends on a professional level. I uploaded my address book, and LinkedIn used it...
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Blogging
April 11, 2008
I joined Facebook.com last Thursday, and so far I'm liking it. The site doesn't allow the flashy layouts you see at MySpace.com, but it allows users to add 100s of 3rd party applications that do all sorts of things. I think most of the...
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Blogging
February 29, 2008
Since it will be March tomorrow and I have posted here only once since December, I thought it might be a good idea to announce that I am still alive, but just haven't felt like writing much so far in 2008. I have been...
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DMG's Photos
July 24, 2007
I haven't added any new public photo galleries since early April, because I've been too busy shooting pictures to spend much time editing them. I have built quite a few galleries that have been partially edited, though, and this week I will be working...
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8:50 AM in
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DMG's Photos
June 4, 2007
Our photo gallery has had 777 visitors since it opened on January 12, 2007. Have you visited it yet? If you haven't, just click below: ShyCloud.com/DMGsGallery...
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DMG's Photos
January 16, 2007
I've added four more galleries to ShyCloud.com's new Photo Gallery, which gives us a total of 20 so far. Click on the link above, or on the Photo Gallery links in the navigation bars located at the top and bottom of this page. 071406-Kim...
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DMG's Photos
January 15, 2007
There are now 16 separate galleries in the new ShyCloud.com Photo Gallery! Click on the link above, or on the Photo Gallery links in the navigation bars located at the top and bottom of this page. 011007-Hot Chicks In Bands 2 122306-DMG's Birthday Dinner...
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DMG's Photos
January 13, 2007
I finally have begun to create an online Photo Gallery here to display some of the zillions of pictures I have taken over the years! I have 12 recent galleries there so far, and I will add new ones quite often, as I have...
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10:04 AM in
Blogging,
DMG's Photos
December 29, 2006
Happy Birthday, ShyCloud.com!!! Today, December 29th, is the ten-year anniversary of the day I first put a primitive web site online, after watching a "How-To-Build-A-Web-Site" segment on MSNBC's great old show, "The Site." With what I learned there, along with a couple of articles...
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Blogging
December 21, 2006
I finally have solved many of my gallery-building issues, and I just published a gallery for the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women's Red Carpet Gala, which Dan Chusid and I photographed on Saturday. Check it out at: ShyCloud.com/DMGsGallery/121606-SharpGala...
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9:41 AM in
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DMG's Photos
November 10, 2006
At last I have found a photo gallery system that I really like, and can install on my own web site, where I'm already paying for the space! It is a Mac OS freeware program called Galerie 5.3.0, and I am in the process...
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2:25 PM in
Blogging,
DMG's Photos
August 5, 2006
Early this morning I added a music video gallery, featuring singers I've captured on tape since 1995....
August 4, 2006
I just installed some of the changes I promised a few days ago, including a primitive photo gallery. Our home page still looks exactly the same, but if you read the left and right columns, you will discover new content on both sides. Nothing...
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5:50 PM in
Blogging,
DMG's Photos
August 1, 2006
Tomorrow I plan to begin working on some changes to this web site. They will start to appear by Friday. I'm not sure in what order they will happen yet, but amongst the changes will be: --the addition of a gallery of my photos...
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Blogging,
DMG's Photos
March 6, 2006
Many thanks and much love to the wonderful Cathryn Beeks for honoring me today as her Link of the Week at her fabulous Listen Local web site! She says, "Tireless and talented as all get out, David Matt Green, aka Shycloud, has been shooting...
February 3, 2006
I just added my 300th friend on MySpace! And the coolest thing is that I've actually met 232 of them in person, mostly through the music scene here in San Diego, California. Visit my MySpace profile at: myspace.com/shycloud And if you are a member...
February 2, 2006
Since 1995 I have been taking pictures and shooting video of various singers and bands at numerous venues around San Diego County. I've decided it's about time I start letting more people see those pictures and videos, so I am working on places to...
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Blogging
January 31, 2006
As it says near the top right of our front page, it costs quite a bit of money to run ShyCloud.com. Several people have mentioned that many blogs accept donations to help them pay their bills, so we've decided to give that a try....
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11:48 AM in
Blogging
January 26, 2006
You may have noticed I haven't posted anything here all month. That's because I've been working on a lot of stuff behind the scenes, in preparation for making some changes to this web site. One of the first things I'm ready to show you...
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2:22 PM in
Blogging,
Music
November 13, 2005
I have a friend in New Jersey named Laura Quinn who was born on the same day as me, Christmas Eve. She recently sent me a message saying she had Googled "shycloud" for images, and found 16 pages of all the pictures I've ever...
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Blogging
October 24, 2005
Since the middle of last week, this site has been experiencing technical difficulties which have kept us offline at times, through no fault of our own! Some equipment blew out at our Internet Provider early last Wednesday and they have had major problems getting...
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Blogging
September 15, 2005
I have created three groups on MySpace. Here are their URLs and the descriptions about them: http://groups.myspace.com/theharoldnetwork Before David Matt Green created ShyCloud.com at the end of 1996, he published an eclectic newsletter named HAROLD from 1985-96. From 1991-96, DMG also was the System...
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Blogging
August 28, 2005
I haven't mentioned the free networking site MySpace.com lately. I'm still there, though, and still having fun finding people I've met in real life to connect with there! I'm up to 115 friends! I've now added three famous people to my group who I...
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11:25 AM in
Blogging
June 25, 2005
I added my 82nd friend on MySpace earlier today. He's someone you may have heard of once or twice... guy name of Sir Paul McCartney! Now I'm not 100% certain that he's the real deal, but I'm almost 100% certain that if it isn't...
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12:35 AM in
Blogging
June 4, 2005
After less than three weeks on MySpace.com, I already have connected with 58 people I know! Most of them are folks I have met in the San Diego music scene, because music types have found MySpace a great way to network, both with each...
May 13, 2005
I am thrilled to announce that ShyCloud.com's new layout and color scheme are finally in place! I had the new look stuck in my head for months and months, but I was unable to bring it to the screen because I lacked the language...
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11:11 AM in
Blogging
May 9, 2005
If ShyCloud.com looks much more colorful than it did the last time you were here, that's because I just installed our new style sheet! There are still some things I want to improve, and I need to work on the various archive pages that...
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11:00 AM in
Blogging
May 5, 2005
It's taken me quite some time, but I finally seem to have gotten the hang of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)! I've created a 3-column layout on my Test Blog, which I will move to ShyCloud.com within a few days, once I finish fine-tuning...
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5:05 PM in
Blogging
March 2, 2005
You may have noticed that I haven't posted much here in the last two weeks. That's because I'm working on some changes to the way I've been doing things here. You should see the differences soon. Please be patient in the meantime!...
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4:43 PM in
Blogging
January 1, 2005
Happy New Year to our ShyCloud.com readers! Thanks to all of you for helping this web site grow! For the month of December we averaged 1,135 page views a day! That was our first time over 1,000. Last January our average was only 276...
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12:20 PM in
Blogging,
Holidays
December 29, 2004
ShyCloud.com is eight years old today! I launched it onto the World Wide Web back on December 29, 1996. During the first seven years of its life, this was a rather dull-looking web page that didn't change very much. You can see what I...
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7:00 AM in
Birthdays,
Blogging
December 22, 2004
I now know about terrorism from a personal level. :( I arrived home late Tuesday from a very great birthday party to discover that for the second time in a week this web site had been hacked, this time by something called "The Infektion...
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2:06 AM in
Blogging
November 20, 2004
As you may know, I've been searching the net for a guestbook that I really like, and I think I may have found one at last! It's called Advanced Guestbook and several people have already signed it. Please help us test the book by...
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12:14 AM in
Blogging
November 7, 2004
I've done a lot of work on ShyCloud.com recently, although not much of it is visible unless you look a little deeper than the front page. Some things that do show are the Categories at the bottom of each article, as well as the...
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12:50 AM in
Blogging
November 1, 2004
I just figured out how to copy the table from our CDBaby.com Control Panel that lists the 30 CDs that have received the most hits from ShyCloud.com to CDBaby.com. Check it out! There have been 1,533 total hits since we partnered with them on...
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1:41 AM in
Blogging,
Music
October 21, 2004
Hey! Want to see some Blogs that inspire me to try to make our 6-month-old Blog better and better? Here are five of them: A world traveler named Cherie Sogsti produces a great Blog at www.WheresCherie.com! Earlier this year she let me link to...
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2:41 AM in
Blogging,
DMG's Friends
October 20, 2004
I've been creating a better page to display the independently-produced CDs that my friends and acquaintances are selling on CDBaby.com. Whereas before there were only pictures of each CD, now there are descriptions to go with them. Check out the new page at: www.ShyCloud.com/CDBaby.html...
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2:15 PM in
Blogging,
Music
October 13, 2004
ShyCloud.com's Weblog is six months old today! We consider its birthday to be April 13, 2004 -- the day we got a Movable Type Personal Publishing System up and running on our server. I've been having lots of fun creating this Blog, and I...
October 10, 2004
Did you ever attend a Catholic school in San Diego County? If you did, I have a web site for you to visit! It's called San Diego Catholic School Alums and the URL is www.SDCSA.net. I am the group's founder and the webmaster for...
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2:24 PM in
Blogging,
San Diego
August 30, 2004
Wooo Hooo! ShyCloud.com has made our first official dollar! Yay! After 872 visits from ShyCloud.com to CDBaby.com pages, we've finally sold a CD for one of our friends! Earlier today, someone somewhere purchased a copy of Quincy's CD, "Also Known As Mary," which earns...
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11:47 PM in
Blogging,
Music
June 4, 2004
I recently learned that I could help my musician friends sell their independently released CDs, while also helping ShyCloud.com at the same time! CDBaby.com, where many of my friends sell their CDs, has a Partner Program, which I've joined. Now, if you go through...
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12:40 PM in
Blogging,
Music
June 1, 2004
I had a great time Monday night at Bridget Brigitte's Music Monday at Humphrey's Backstage Lounge! I saw some old friends and met a ton of interesting new people, and Patti Zlaket even singled me out from the stage as someone who does a...
May 26, 2004
I turned ShyCloud.com into a weblog in early April. Since then the average number of Page Views per day here has gone up from 263 in March, to 358 in April, to 610 so far in May! It would seem, therefore, that people must...
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10:43 AM in
Blogging,
DMG's Friends
May 23, 2004
As of today, May 23rd, ShyCloud.com is averaging 610 Page Views per day for the month of May! Our highest previous daily average for a full month was April, when we had 358 Page Views a day....
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11:27 AM in
Blogging
May 21, 2004
If you would like to see a weblog that has been around since 2001, and just happens to be created by a famous person you've probably heard of, check out: http://wilwheaton.net/ The blog is the online home of actor Wil Wheaton! He was one...
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2:50 PM in
Blogging,
Films
May 17, 2004
I've discovered I can help singers I know who have released CDs, while helping ShyCloud.com at the same time! CDBaby.com, where many of my friends sell their CDs, has a Partner Program, which I've joined. Now, whenever you go through one of my links...
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8:12 PM in
Blogging,
Music
May 10, 2004
So, to summarize what I eventually said in today's earlier message about using page views rather than basic hits to measure traffic to a web site: After we added our Blog in late March, ShyCloud.com jumped from a total of 1,680 page views in...
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8:02 PM in
Blogging
Last Thursday I sent an e-mail to all of my friends announcing that the number of monthly hits for ShyCloud.com had jumped from a mere 2,592 in December, to an amazing 54,118 in April, the first month we had our Blog up and running!...
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6:32 PM in
Blogging,
DMG's Friends
May 8, 2004
I just spent part of my Friday evening making some small improvements to ShyCloud.com. I added more information along the right side of the page and organized it all a little better. I also increased the number of Recent Articles that will be listed...
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12:39 AM in
Blogging
April 27, 2004
I taught Journalism for St. Augustine High School and the Academy of Our Lady of Peace from 1980-84 and again for three months in 1986, and two of my former students are now writing sports Blogs. Check out their work sometime! Paul Greer (Saints...
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11:03 AM in
Blogging,
DMG's Friends
April 15, 2004
I just moved this Movable Type Blog to make it the new front page of ShyCloud.com! Hopefully, I have everything working correctly. It all seems to be working fine anyway. If you do find a problem, however, please let me know. Thanks! Enjoy!...
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12:32 PM in
Blogging
April 14, 2004
I just changed the stylesheet that controls the overall look of this Blog. The main reason I wanted a Content Management System is because they separate Content from Presentation. Now, whenever I want to add something new, the CMS will do most of the...
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6:15 PM in
Blogging
April 13, 2004
Our new Movable Type Blog seems to be up and running at last, appropriately on April 13, 2004! I launched my old ProLine BBS, Pro-Harold.cts.com, on July 13, 1991, so since then I've always considered the 13th a lucky day for me, and it...
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2:46 PM in
Blogging
March 31, 2004
Greetings! I've found a third one of these programs, which are called Content Management Systems, or CMSs. This one is called Greymatter and I also have another one installed and working called Nucleus. The third one is called Movable Type and I think it's...
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10:28 PM in
Blogging
March 30, 2004
After I installed this Greymatter Blog software, I did some more research and found another software that I like, maybe better. It's called Nucleus and I've also installed it on ShyCloud.com. I will play with both of these setups for the time being to...
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2:04 PM in
Blogging
Surprise! If you've come here today looking for the next front page of ShyCloud.com, #6, you've found it, but I suspect it isn't what you were expecting! People kept telling me that ShyCloud.com seemed like a Weblog, or Blog, so I did some research...
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12:02 PM in
Blogging